Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Metzia 61, 62, and 63, find the rabbis making strange comparisons between the Exodus and weights and measurements. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain this strange choice, and how it teaches us that we all have our own unique purpose in life. How to tell things apart when they look a lot alike? Listen and find out.

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Bava Metzia 61, 62, and 63 – Like the Plague with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin